Police Beat

Tom Collins
Arizona Daily Wildcat
September 4, 1996

A female student reported that she was assaulted Monday at 4 p.m. while jogging.
She told university police she was running at East Sixth Street and North Campbell Avenue when a man rode by on his bicycle and grabbed her buttocks.
She told police the man had done the same thing to her last year as she jogged on Mountain Avenue. She told police she had not reported that incident.
The student told police she could identify the man. No arrests have been made.

University and Tucson police responded Monday at 9:04 p.m. to reports of a man with a gun outside of Arizona-Sonora Residence Hall, 910 E. Fifth St.
The reporting person said he saw a man standing near a Chevrolet Corvette with a 9mm semiautomatic pistol tucked into the back of his pants.
The reporting person told police the man looked like he was waiting for someone.
When police arrived, they could not find the man.

University police cited a man for trespassing after they found him hanging his clothes on a clothesline at 1640 E. Sixth St.
Fernando I. Mota-Sanchez, 43, of the 0-100 block of East Dakota Street, said he had washed his clothes at a nearby laundromat.
A computer check showed Mota-Sanchez was cited for trespassing outside the same location June 30.
Mota-Sanchez was cited for third degree trespassing and released at the scene. He was told never to return to the location.

A Pearce, Ariz. resident is believed to be missing after his truck was left abandoned in the UA lot at East Sixth Street and North Euclid Avenue following Saturday's UA football game.
University police first noticed the truck parked and straddling a parking block after Saturday's game.
The truck remained in the lot through Monday at 11:18 p.m., when police began investigating. After a computer check, the owner of the truck, a woman from Pearce, was contacted and told police her son had been using the car.
The woman told police her son was going to Cochise Stronghold to look at property, but she had not heard from him in 72 hours.
Police entered the 1975 Ford truck and found the doors to the truck were unlocked and the keys in the ignition.
Police found a .35-caliber rifle and several cartridges, as well as a BB gun and several BBs. Police also found a map of Tucson and some handwritten directions.
The police found no signs of foul play.
The woman told police her son had just moved to Arizona and did not know anyone in the state. She said her son had no reason to go to Tucson.
The woman said she plans to file a missing person report with the Cochise County Sheriff.

A man was arrested on DWI charges Monday after being stopped for driving erratically at East Mabel Street and North Martin Avenue.
University police noticed a maroon Chevrolet Monte Carlo traveling north on North Cherry Avenue at 6:28 p.m. The car was driving below the speed limit and did not stay in the center of the lane.
The car turned right onto East Speedway Boulevard from the center lane on Cherry, then turned north onto North Campbell Avenue, using two lanes.
Police stopped the car at Mabel and Martin.
As the officer approached the car, she smelled a strong odor of alcohol and observed several beer cans and bottles behind the driver's seat.
The driver, Phillip John Joaquim, 32, of Sells, said the car was not his, and that he did not have a driver license, proof of registration or insurance.
The officer asked Joaquim if he had been drinking. Joaquim said he had had two beers.
Joaquim failed field sobriety tests, and based on that, his odor, and his driving performance, he was arrested on a charge of driving while impaired.
Police found a hypodermic needle in Joaquim's pocket, and he admitted using heroin the day before.
At UAPD headquarters, Joaquim refused to take an intoxilyzer test. After refusing, his driver license was automatically suspended for 12 months.
He was taken to Pima County Pretrial Services on charges of DWI, driving while impaired with drugs, driving without a valid driver license, proof of registration or insurance, making an improper left turn, littering and possession of drug paraphernalia.

Police Beat is compiled from official University of Arizona Police Department reports.